RE: st: Naming equations when using the ml command

Indeed. Also this code fragment could bite you
_pecats yourvar
loc catvals = "r(catvals)"
loc j = r(numcats)
forval i = 1/`j' {
loc val`i': word `i' of `catvals'
}
as the assignment -loc catvals- will
truncate at 80 or 244 chars, depending
on your Stata. Copying, not
assignment, is needed with this route.
Nick
n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
Richard Williams
> At 04:15 PM 3/30/2005 -0600, Jun Xu wrote:
> >Miss the second part. For value lables, you can try Scott
> Long's _pecats
> >and get returns from it. It really depends. If you have
> fixed number of
> >equation, then you can set up loops like
> >
> >_pecats yourvar
> >loc catvals = "r(catvals)"
> >loc j = r(numcats)
> >forval i = 1/`j' {
> > loc val`i': word `i' of `catvals'
> >}
> >
> >Then you can grab those val`i' for your equation names. If
> you don't have
> >fixed number of equations, then you need to again set up
> some kind of
> >loops. Not sure if this is what you meant to accomplish.
>
> Incidentally, I am finding that this may be more trouble than it is
> worth. mlogit seems to be able to handle just about any
> value label and
> using it as the equation name. But, I am finding that I have
> trouble with
> value labels that contain spaces or commas, and value labels
> that get used
> more than once, and probably various other quirks I haven't
> tested yet.
> Just leaving the equation names as eq1, eq2, etc. is starting
> to look more attractive.
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